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Assoc Prof Tracey Bunda

Biography

Associate Professor Tracey Bunda is an Ngugi/Wakka Wakka woman - a Goori woman from Queensland. Her career in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education began in 1986 at the then Koori Program at the Gippsland Institute in Victoria. Since that time she has worked at the Convenor of the Weemala Centre - Australian Catholic University, the Director of the Wollotuka Centre at Newcastle University, the Director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Higher Education at the Ngunnawal Centre, University of Canberra and was Director of the Yunggorendi First Nations Centre from May 2005 until December 2007.

Qualifications

2004-2012 PhD Candidate - University of South AustraliaThesis Titled: "Solid or What?: Aboriginal Peoples' Relationship with the University"

1986 Bachelor of Education, Queensland University of Technology (1986)

Teaching interests

As a Goori woman educator, Tracey holds academic interests in the complexity of race relationships between Aboriginal peoples and white institutions. In this context her current research gives focus to Aboriginal life-experiences as the theoretical framework for Aboriginal people's engagement in higher education in order to provide a critical and alternate reading of the university. Her research profile is commencing though her objective is to develop knowledge that centres around Aboriginal voices to provide counter constructions of white institutions, predominately educational, for transformation of that institution and Aboriginal liberation. Broad areas of interest include: Ngugi Wakka Wakka cultural theory, education and leadership theory, critical race theory, research methodologies and postcolonialities.